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If you're talking about using Youtube, you have no choice. Most video sites including Youtube use Flash. Nothing else will work. Microsoft launched Silverlight as a Flash alternative a few years ago but it hasn't been widely accepted.

chrome has one built in, you don't need to donwload a flash player from adobe if you use chrome.

Youtube these days is one of a few video sites that use html 5 instead of flash, it can be watched from chrome (which has built in flash anyway) or firefox (which doesn't have built in flash but does have built in html5).

Your options are as follows:
1)use chrome, it has a built in flash player
2) use firefox and either keep to video sites that use html5 or download adobe flash to work with it

As a piece of advice whichever method you choose: make sure flash player and other plugins are "ask to activate" or "click to play", don't let them "run automatically" or "always activate".